Principal Accountant General (Audit-II)

Sri. Ashok Sinha, IA&AS 

Shri, Ashok Sinha is a 1998 batch IAAS officer. He has assumed the charge of Principal Accountant General, Audit II, Karnataka, Bengaluru on 21^st April 2025. He is a Post Graduate in “Modern Indian History” from University of Delhi. Previously he has worked as Director General of Audit, Railways and Rajbhasha at the office Comptroller & Auditor General of India, New Delhi, Director General of Audit (Health, Welfare & Rural Development) New Delhi and as Accountant General (A&E) Uttarakhand, Dehradun.  Besides he has worked in various capacities at Chandigarh, Jaipur (Rajasthan) and Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) and held important charges.

While holding the charge of Principal Director, GASAB in the office of CAG of India, New Delhi, he was instrumental in preparation and publication of the “Concept Paper on Natural Resource Accounting” brought out by Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board.

          During his long career in the department spanning more than 27 years, he has a rich and vast experience of working in the field of Civil Audit, Receipt Audit, Accounts and Entitlement Functions etc. He was also involved in the overseas audit assignment at WHO and IOM Geneva, (Switzerland), UN HQ country office Columbia, UN entities in Afghanistan and Nepal. Further he was also part of the team auditing the Indian overseas  missions  at Manila (Philippines) and Bangkok (Thailand).